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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Don't want to know it, don't want to see anything about it anymore

I've seen the requirements to really really solve it and even if tomorrow, magically, politicians become ethical and caring and start working 100% to fix it, it would take decades of spending half the world's GDP to fix this back to acceptable levels, maybe centuries to get it back to pre Industrial levels.

So far we're not even willing to act as if we care. Do not think this won't touch you if you're under 50, you will see the blow back, hard.

I'm done caring, I'm done trying, let the world burn, humanity will end. I just try to enjoy the good ydays we have left, and hope that whatever comes after us learns. Doubt it, but one can hope.